социальные сети

The article presents the reflection on the digital socialization. It is noted that the dynamics of actor socialization in the conditions of digitalization is due to information «challenges» that form a conscious desire to master social experience through online contexts, regardless the social actors` age.

The article tells about the study of online communities at Saratov State University. In the course of the study, a Python algorithm was developed to search for online communities according to certain criteria and a social graph was built, which was further transformed using a clustering algorithm. The obtained results of the study can be used to increase the recognition of the university in social networks, which will raise the prestige of the university and attract more applicants.

The article considers the mechanisms of media corporations’ infl uence on the process of designing and coordinating political protests in the USA, France, China, Belarus, and the Russian Federation in the context of digital globalization. Methodological basis of the research consists of the methods of case study and comparative analysis. The authors study fi ve cases refl ecting the specifi cs of communication channels through which national digitalization scenarios of political protest are implemented and carry out comparative analysis based on the authors’ criteria.

The Internet, as the global communication channel, is a factor systemically transforming all social reality. Digitalization of almost all spheres of life, communications virtualization and the expansion of network interactions lead to deep changes in the social structure, social institutions, sociocultural mechanisms for the functioning of society and revising ethical and legal norms. Transformation changes of a large-scale sociocultural context generate a new type of culture.

The article is devoted to the possibilities of crisis communications between the government and society in social networks. The authors are of the opinion that in modern research and political practices insufficient attention is paid to studying the potential of political communication in social networks in a crisis situation.

This article demonstrates the flaws of EU intelligence agencies the past decade in the field of counterterrorism, in particular regarding Jihadi terrorism. Since 2014 the West European countries fell victim to the violent actions of Islamic State (IS), which has a huge presence on social media, both on the surface web and on the Darknet. The goal is to outline the most important case-studies of Jihadi terrorism that were plotted and carried out by the terrorists and yet, not prevented by the classical intelligence authorities.

This article describes virtual forms of modern political processes, their distinctive features as well as it makes an attempt to determine their on national and international security. Politicization of the information and communication environment in modern society is an indisputable fact. Besides publications of news of the political contents and their discussion in virtual space there were also protest political actions.

В статье  с  социологической  точки  зрения  анализируются  особенности формирования и изменения образования в процессе 
создания виртуальных социумов

В статье рассматриваются особенности социологической интерпретации глобализации, потребления, виртуализации как культурных контекстов идентичности.

В статье определяется изменение роли социальных сетей в ре-
зультате их инкорпорирования в систему публичного управления.
Автор типологизирует и характеризует открытые механизмы
инкорпорирования социальных сетей во властно-политическую
и административно-управленческую подсистемы публичного
управления. На основе исследования российских практик инкор-
порирования социальных сетей оценивается их конструктивный
потенциал для разрешения общественно значимых проблем и
повышения эффективности публичного управления.